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" Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. "
Ice T
Ice
Man
Nobody
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" I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about. "
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Long
Survive
Wait
" Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out. "
Ice T
Paper
Create
Thought
" I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. "
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Good
Show
Never
" When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting. "
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Music
Focus
Chance
" I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. "
Ice T
Born
Street
Parents
" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "
Ice T
Real
Possibly
Effort
" I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative. "
Ice T
Done
Negative
Go
" I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff. "
Ice T
Hip-Hop
Say
People
" I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them. "
Ice T
Always
Been
Movie
" Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. "
Ice T
Music
Outrageous
Some
" I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives. "
Ice T
I Love You
Baby
Think
" You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. "
Ice T
Just
Get
Level
" Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value. "
Ice T
Headline
Shock
Most
" If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. "
Ice T
Rapper
Stop
Really
" I've never been competitive with anybody but myself. "
Ice T
Myself
Been
Competitive
" My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive. "
Ice T
Woman
Father
Hair
" If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. "
Ice T
Miles
Need
Understand
" I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "
Ice T
Rap
Able
Ten
" I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. "
Ice T
Art
Car
Money
" I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. "
Ice T
People
Music
Son
" My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.' "
Ice T
Me
Boy
Always
" I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. "
Ice T
Just
Think
Got
" I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. "
Ice T
Like
Record
Would
" I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?! "
Ice T
Clothes
Girl
Car
" I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. "
Ice T
Growing
Go
Growing Up
" 'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible. "
Ice T
City
People
Myself
" You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop. "
Ice T
Kind
Hip-Hop
Like
" When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit. "
Ice T
Start
You
Hanging
" Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. "
Ice T
Hollywood
Want
Cinema
" The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. "
Ice T
Play
City
Phone